LEWIS (C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of 'The Screwtape Letters')

Typed Letter Signed ('C. S. Lewis') to "My dear June" saying that he is "waiting for a suitable moment to show Warnie the cutting. It is more like the N.I.C.E. than I should have beleived [sic] possible. I'm afraid 'Our Town' will be out of the question, but all good wishes. I liked your performance in the 'Octopus' and thought your ghost career a complete success ... more interesting than Act I ...", 1 side oblong 4to., with original autograph envelope signed with initials, Magdalen College, Oxford, 26th October

Flewett's family lived in Barnes, southwest London, where her father was the senior classics master at St Paul's school. She and her two sisters were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz. In the summer of 1943, at the age of 16, she moved in with the Lewises at their home The Kilns, as a house keeper. Her favourite writer was C.S.Lewis and initially she had no idea she was living with the same man. She developed what she later called a "tremendous crush" on him. She was highly regarded in the household and Lewis referred to her in a letter as "without exception the most selfless person I have ever known." After two years, she left the Lewises to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), hand Lewis paid her fees

Item Date:  1945

Stock No:  36817     

                


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